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Apis violacea fought its nourifliment on the 

 bean-flowers in the forenoon, but in the after- 

 noon it refted on the vine-tendrils, or on the dry 

 bufhes, which were laid over the covered walks 

 to keep off the heat of the fun. Thefe fum- 

 mer-houfes were covered with the blue paflion- 

 fiower (Pajfiflora ccerutea) which had neither 

 flowers nor fruit at that time. Befides thefe 

 beans, there were Indian creffes (Tropaolum?) 

 vulgo Na/lurtium, wild rofes, Pdcinus com- 

 munis , and borrage (Borrago officinalis) ; which 

 are likewife common in our gardens. 



Spanish locufts, called Grillo in Spain, are 

 by the people of falhion kept in cages called 

 Grilkria ; whereas our locufts are not in the 

 leaft efteemed, and fing their fong without 

 being taken notice of* 



February the 15 th and 16th. 



I again went to the Puerto de Sanaa Ma- 

 ria, where I re-vifited the above-mentioned in- 

 clofed fir-wood, in which I found the fine Or- 

 chis, already withered ; but as I could find no 

 other plants befides thofe I have already men- 

 F 4 tioned, 



